How do I highlight text with color in confluence?

[Cobin Bluth]

I have some documents in my Google Docs that I would like to transfer to Confluence.
My document makes heavy use of highlighting text in color to differentiate certain contextual elements in the document.

How do I highlight text with color in confluence?

[Scott Morris]

not really an answer. more of an add-on. i really want to highlight text inline from my page, not put it in its own box. i need to identify code to be changed vs. code that is good. maybe i'm just stuck in an old version of confluence?

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

Hello Cobin and welcome to Community!

There is an open feature request: Provide ability to easily highlight text with color in WYSIWYG editor, you can vote for it to show interest and watch it to be updated.

You can use macros as a workaround:

• Info (blue)
• Tip (green)
• Warning (red)
• Note (yellow)
• Background Color (custom)
• Panel (custom)
• Status (single words)

You'll get this as a result:

Hope this helps,

- Manon

[Laura Servidei]

how do you make the status box that big? Mine is only a few character wide, and after that it shows "..."

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

Hello @Laura Servidei,

The status box is small and ends with "..." while in Edit mode, publish the page and it should be bigger :)

[Laura Servidei]

DOH!

Thanks.

[Dave Hildebrandt]

Use the span macro to set the style.

[Andrew Rothman]

Where do we get that?

[Ollie Guan]

Hi @Cobin Bluth,

Try this plug-in:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211012/webfonts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview

[SG]

Looked promising, but is only available for server, which is no longer sold.

It's disappointing that text formatting options are so limited on Confluence.